AWARDS:
- Photo District News (PDN) / Billboard's
Ultimate Music Moment 2011 (Professional Winner, Crowd category)
EXHIBITIONS:
- Tribute To The Movies @
The Satellite Silver Lake, CA (6/25/11)
- One Night Only: A Local Music Photographers Show @
Spaceland, Silver Lake, CA (10/11/10)
- Local Music Photographers Group Show @
Ballard's Artwork & Framing, Echo Park, CA (9/24 - 10/16/10)
- Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA)
Group Show @
Smashbox Studios, Culver City, CA (4/29 - 5/19/10)
- Exposure Group Show @
Where Gallery, Silver Lake, CA (2/27 - 3/20/09)
A Los Angeles native,
Koga is an award-winning photojournalist who covers the local music scene and adult industry. His subjects are a veritable who's-who of rising stars from the "Eastside" indie rock and singer-songwriter genres, and many of the adult film actresses he has photographed have challenged the stereotypical notion of what a pornstar is.
Friend of
Fleshbot,
Buzz Bands, and
LAist, Koga has been on-set for several adult and mainstream productions, including porn parodies of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
Star Trek,
Star Trek: The Next Generation,
The X-Files,
Seinfeld,
The Simpsons,
Tron,
Reservoir Dogs,
Revenge of the Nerds,
The Justice League, and
Sailor Moon, not to mention the critically-acclaimed web series
The Guild starring
Felicia Day.
Koga's photographs have been published in
The LA Times,
LA Weekly,
Metromix,
LA Business Journal,
AVN, and
Penthouse.
QUOTES:
- "Koga, you're a great photographer and a cool dude!" said Kimberly Kane.
- "You're a champion of the local music scene," observed Becky Stark (Lavender Diamond, The Living Sisters)
- "If the actual porns could look as good as the pics you shoot, I might start watching them," joked one publicist.
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